Mammography Access for Veterans Act of 2025
Summary
What This Bill Does
The Mammography Access for Veterans Act removes the pilot-program framing from VA's telescreening mammography authority and sets a May 1, 2027 reporting deadline. Within two years after enactment, the VA Secretary must ensure that each state and Puerto Rico has at least one VA option for mammography access: the telescreening program, a full-service mammography program in a VA facility, or a VA mobile mammography program. VA must ensure these programs are accessible to veterans with paralysis, spinal cord injuries or disorders, and other disabilities, and the bill preserves VA's ability to expand telescreening to additional facilities beyond the original pilot sites or states lacking VA breast imaging.
Who Benefits and How
Women veterans and other veterans needing breast imaging benefit from a nationwide access floor for VA mammography options. Veterans with paralysis, spinal cord injuries, or other disabilities benefit from explicit accessibility requirements. VA medical centers and mobile mammography programs benefit from clear authority to expand beyond the pilot structure.
Who Bears the Burden and How
VA must convert the pilot into an ongoing program, ensure at least one mammography option in every state and Puerto Rico within two years, meet accessibility requirements, and report by May 1, 2027. VA facilities may need staffing, equipment, contracts, telehealth workflows, mobile units, or facility upgrades to comply. Federal taxpayers bear implementation costs.
Key Provisions
- Removes pilot-program limits from VA telescreening mammography authority.
- Requires VA to offer telescreening, full-service facility mammography, or mobile mammography in every state and Puerto Rico within two years.
- Requires mammography programs to be accessible for veterans with paralysis, spinal cord injuries, spinal cord disorders, and other disabilities.
- Preserves VA authority to expand telescreening beyond original pilot facilities and states without VA breast imaging.
Evidence Chain:
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At a Glance
What This Bill Does
Makes VA telescreening mammography permanent and requires VA to offer telescreening, full-service, or mobile mammography in every state and Puerto Rico within two years, with disability accessibility.
Key Policy Areas
Veterans, Healthcare
Primary Purpose
Makes VA telescreening mammography permanent and requires VA to offer telescreening, full-service, or mobile mammography in every state and Puerto Rico within two years, with disability accessibility.
Policy Domains
Substantive provisions
Identified Gains
- Women veterans
- Veterans with disabilities
- VA medical centers
- Mobile mammography programs
Identified Costs
- Department of Veterans Affairs
- VA medical centers
- Federal taxpayers
Sponsors
Legislative Progress
In CommitteeReferred to the House Committee on Veterans' Affairs.
Introduced in House
Mr. Thompson of Pennsylvania (for himself, Mr. Larsen of Washington, …
Stakeholder Effects
cui bono?How this legislation distributes effects. Mention counts reflect frequency, not effect magnitude.
Department of Veterans Affairs, Veterans with disabilities, Women veterans
Positive-direction: Veterans with disabilities, Women veterans
Negative-direction: Department of Veterans Affairs
Bill Structure & Actor Mappings
Who is "The Secretary" in each section?
- "va"
- → Department of Veterans Affairs
- "secretary"
- → Secretary of Veterans Affairs
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